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...last, "disastrous" Council of Foreign Ministers in London last year equaled in frank ferocity the exchanges in the Security Council between Messrs. Vishinsky and Bevin. When the bitter anger of the Foreign Ministers' meeting had seeped out to the world, men's hope for themselves and for UNO all but vanished. But, at these public meetings, when Ernest Bevin turned upon the pallid Russian and Vishinsky turned upon the West's great defender, the effect was good, healthy and hopeful...
When Ernie Bevin told off Andrei Vishinsky at UNO last week, and sat down, almost the whole London press stood up to cheer. The lone exception was the Communist Daily Worker...
Last November pretty, blonde Guri Lie showed her father a report in a Norwegian newspaper that he might become secretary of UNO. Big, bluff Trygve Lie (pronounced TRIG-va Lee) boomed: "What is this? Why do they suggest me?" Trygve Lie knew that they would not pick him for his suavity (nil), for his international experience (limited), or for his brain (good, but not dazzling). Last week UNO, a more rugged organization than anyone expected, picked rugged Trygve Lie for character...
...ideal man; but the best available, since it finally had to be a European." Old-style diplomats found him uncouth but impressive, "a rough diamond." The difference between Lie and smooth, aristocratic Sir Eric Drummond, first Secretary General of the League of Nations, might mark the difference between UNO and the League...
Sham Battle. For the key post of Secretary General of UNO, the U.S. delegation had first put forward the name of Canada's Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, though they knew the Russians would not stand for a North American. The Russians advanced the names of two obscure eastern Europeans, although they knew the U.S. would not accept a Soviet stooge. Lie was the serious candidate of both the Americans and the Russians, although each thought the other would object...